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 Alphabet Inc's Google has told suppliers to start making its Pixel smartphones in India by next quarter at the earliest, as part of its plan to ship more than 10 million Pixel phones this year, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. Google would start manufacturing smartphones in India and its flagship Pixel 8 will be available in 2024, it said last October, as it focuses more on a key growth market. The move will also help Google diversify its supply chain away from China, the Nikkei report said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The tech giant will prepare production lines for its high-end Pixel 8 Pro smartphones in the coming weeks and start producing phones in the April-June quarter, the report added, citing multiple sources. The report did not say how many phones Google plans to manufacture India nor if the phones will be for sale in the country or for exports. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for co...

Popular microblogging site ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter, had its services disrupted in Pakistan on Monday for the third consecutive day. Users nationwide have grappled with prolonged inaccessibility to the platform , marking yet another glitch in internet instability in the weeks leading up to, during, and after the hotly-contested February 8 national elections. According to Downdetector, X services were disrupted at around 1pm. The social media platform also experienced outages earlier in the day, it was reportedly not accessible around 10:30am and services were restored around noon.  This is the third consecutive day of disruptions, which started soon after the now-former commissioner Rawalpindi alleged rigging and irregularities during the February 8 polls and said he played a part in the process. Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatha took responsibility for what he termed a "heinous crime," and implicated not only himself but als...

The first human patient implanted with a brain-chip from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts, the startup's founder Elon Musk said late on Monday. "Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of. Patient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking," Musk said in a Spaces event on social media platform X. Musk said Neuralink was now trying to get as many mouse button clicks as possible from the patient. Neuralink did not immediately reply to Reuters' request for further details. Neuralink logo and Elon Musk silhouette are seen in this illustration taken, December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab The firm successfully implanted a chip on its first human patient last month, after receiving approval for human trial recruitment in September. The...

WASHINGTON: The US government is award ing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to subsidize semiconductor production , the first major award from a $39 billion fund approved by Congress in 2022 to bolster domestic chip production . GlobalFoundries, the world's third-largest contract chipmaker, will build a new semiconductor production facility in Malta, New York, and expand existing operations there and in Burlington, Vermont, according to a preliminary agreement with the Commerce Department. The department in January announced a $162 million planned award to Microchip Technology and $35 million to a BAE Systems facility in New Hampshire in December. The $1.5 billion GlobalFoundries grant will be accompanied by $1.6 billion in available loans, with the funding expected to generate $12.5 billion in overall potential investment across the two states, the department said. "The chips that GlobalFoundries will make in these new facilities are essen...

Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) (Image credit: Just Clear) Two Q1 microcomputers, widely considered to be the first single-microchip PCs , have been found by house clear ers in the U.K. The discovery brings the total number of known surviving units to three in the world. Employees from the house - clear ing company Just Clear found the two Q1s buried under several boxes while clear ing out a property, Just Clear's founder Brendan O'Shea told Live Science in an email. These two models were last used by an oil drilling company in the 1970s, and the other known model's location is thought to be somewhere in Scandinavia, O'Shea added. Just Clear employees initially had no idea what they had found. O'Shea then consulted with an expert, who told him these devices were the world's first fully integrated desktop computers powered by a single-chip microprocessor. The Q1, m...

US  software giant Microsoft will expand its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure in Spain through an investment of $2.1 billion in the next two years, the company's Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said in a post on social media site X. The move comes on the heels of its announcement of a 3.2 billion euros ($3.45 billion) AI-focused investment in Germany, spanning the next two years. Microsoft did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for further details on the investment in Spain. "Our investment is beyond just building data centers, it's a testament to our 37-year commitment to Spain, its security, and development and digital transformation of its government, Business es, and people," Smith said.   Source: https://thefoxposts.com/microsoft-to-expand-its-ai-infrastructure-with-2-1b-investment-TheFOXposts-47705.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category...

This year’s Women of Power honourees talk about the opportunities, limitations and applications of artificial intelligence in art and business. The initials AI – artificial intelligence – are on everyone’s lips. With the rapid advances in natural language- processing engines such as OpenAI (more than 95 percent of whose employees are, at the time of writing, in revolt and demanding the board’s resignation), the operational landscape of many businesses is changing. Similar developments are taking place in the worlds of art and entertainment, where some key players seem eager to use the tool to advance their work, cut costs or increase productivity. The public discourse surrounding such choices has been polarising: when it transpired that Disney, for example, used AI-generated images in the opening credits of its Secret Invasion series, netizens erupted in a weeks-long fracas over the ethics of such a move and how it would affect artists and graphic d...